Norwich Pharmacal Applications – How “mixed up” must a respondent be and how frank must an applicant be? 

The judgment in the Part 8 Claim of Davidoff & others v Google LLC [2023] EWHC 1958 (KB) runs to 113 paragraphs over 33 pages. Much of the judgment focuses on the problems faced by the Claimants in making good the intended claims for libel and malicious falsehood, but there are two specific aspects worthy of wider consideration. The first is the explicit statement by the Judge that the Claim engaged the duty of full and frank disclosure; the second is the consideration of what degree of involvement meant that the Defendant was “mixed up in the wrongdoing”.

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